sureness

sure

1. Confident, as of something awaited or expected: I am sure we will win the game.

2. Impossible to doubt or dispute; certain: We have sure proof of his innocence.

3.

a. Bound to come about or happen; inevitable: a sure victory for the team.

b. Having one's course directed; destined or bound: She is sure to succeed.

4.

a. Certain not to miss, slip, or err; steady: a sure grip on the suitcase.

b. Not hesitating or wavering; firm: sure convictions.

5.

a. Worthy of being trusted or depended on; reliable: a sure friend.

b. Free from or marked by freedom from doubt: She is sure of her friends.

6. Careful to do something: Be sure to turn off the stove.

7. Obsolete Free from harm or danger; safe.

adv.Informal

Surely; certainly.

Idioms:

for sureInformal

Certainly; unquestionably: We'll win for sure.

make sure

To establish something without doubt; make certain: Make sure he writes it down.

sure enough

As one might have expected; certainly.

to be sure

Indeed; certainly.

[Middle English, from Old French, safe, from Latin sēcūrus; see secure.]

sure′ness n.

Synonyms: sure, certain, confident, positive These adjectives mean feeling or showing no doubt. Sure and certain are frequently used interchangeably; sure, however, is the more subjective term, whereas certain may imply belief based on experience or evidence: "Never teach a child anything of which you are not yourself sure" (John Ruskin)."We went that early because we were certain it was the only way we would ever get a seat" (Ann Patchett).Confident suggests assurance founded on faith or reliance in oneself or in others: "It goes without saying that a smiling, confident person will do better in an interview than a surly one" (Barbara Ehrenreich).Positive suggests full, emphatic certainty: "We were young, and I was positive nothing really terrible could happen to us" (Nora Roberts). See Also Synonyms at certain.

sureness - freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities; "his assurance in his superiority did not make him popular"; "after that failure he lost his confidence"; "she spoke with authority"

We agreed that it was best for Croz to go first, and Hadow second; Hudson, who was almost equal to a guide in sureness of foot, wished to be third; Lord Douglas was placed next, and old Peter, the strongest of the remainder, after him.

Sometimes, as in his treatment of the popular medieval beast-epic material in the Nun's Priest's Tale of the Fox and the Cock, the humor takes the form of boisterous farce; but much more often it is of the finer intellectual sort, the sort which a careless reader may not catch, but which touches with perfect sureness and charming lightness on all the incongruities of life, always, too, in kindly spirit.

Here, apparently, was the Palaeontological Section, and a very splendid array of fossils it must have been, though the inevitable process of decay that had been staved off for a time, and had, through the extinction of bacteria and fungi, lost ninety-nine hundredths of its force, was nevertheless, with extreme sureness if with extreme slowness at work again upon all its treasures.

But there was about her the mysterious authority of beauty, a sureness in the carriage of the head, the movement of the eyes, which, without being in the least theatrical, struck his as highly trained and full of a conscious power.

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